Thomas Seddon

Brandon Thomas Seddon ( born August 28, 1821 in London, † November 23, 1856 in Cairo ) was a British landscape painter in the style of the Pre-Raphaelites.

Life

Thomas Seddon was the son of a cabinet maker, in whose teaching he went. In 1842 he traveled to France to study oriental art in Paris. On his return to England he designed for his mother a salon in oriental style. End of the 1840s he went on a study trip to Wales and Brittany, these works he exhibited three years later at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In 1853 he traveled to Egypt, where he met William Holman Hunt in Cairo. Together they traveled through Egypt and Palestine. After a two-year stay in London Seddon traveled in October 1856 return to Egypt, where he died in Cairo on November 23, 1856, after a short illness.